Reformat docstrings.

Standardize use of whitespace on function calls.
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Greg Ward 2000-09-23 00:59:34 +00:00
parent 4a751580ca
commit 9e3dc4e928

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@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ _copy_action = { None: 'copying',
def _copy_file_contents (src, dst, buffer_size=16*1024):
"""Copy the file 'src' to 'dst'; both must be filenames. Any error
opening either file, reading from 'src', or writing to 'dst',
raises DistutilsFileError. Data is read/written in chunks of
'buffer_size' bytes (default 16k). No attempt is made to handle
anything apart from regular files."""
opening either file, reading from 'src', or writing to 'dst', raises
DistutilsFileError. Data is read/written in chunks of 'buffer_size'
bytes (default 16k). No attempt is made to handle anything apart from
regular files.
"""
# Stolen from shutil module in the standard library, but with
# custom error-handling added.
@ -74,31 +74,29 @@ def copy_file (src, dst,
verbose=0,
dry_run=0):
"""Copy a file 'src' to 'dst'. If 'dst' is a directory, then 'src'
is copied there with the same name; otherwise, it must be a
filename. (If the file exists, it will be ruthlessly clobbered.)
If 'preserve_mode' is true (the default), the file's mode (type
and permission bits, or whatever is analogous on the current
platform) is copied. If 'preserve_times' is true (the default),
the last-modified and last-access times are copied as well. If
'update' is true, 'src' will only be copied if 'dst' does not
exist, or if 'dst' does exist but is older than 'src'. If
'verbose' is true, then a one-line summary of the copy will be
printed to stdout.
"""Copy a file 'src' to 'dst'. If 'dst' is a directory, then 'src' is
copied there with the same name; otherwise, it must be a filename. (If
the file exists, it will be ruthlessly clobbered.) If 'preserve_mode'
is true (the default), the file's mode (type and permission bits, or
whatever is analogous on the current platform) is copied. If
'preserve_times' is true (the default), the last-modified and
last-access times are copied as well. If 'update' is true, 'src' will
only be copied if 'dst' does not exist, or if 'dst' does exist but is
older than 'src'. If 'verbose' is true, then a one-line summary of the
copy will be printed to stdout.
'link' allows you to make hard links (os.link) or symbolic links
(os.symlink) instead of copying: set it to "hard" or "sym"; if it
is None (the default), files are copied. Don't set 'link' on
systems that don't support it: 'copy_file()' doesn't check if
hard or symbolic linking is available.
(os.symlink) instead of copying: set it to "hard" or "sym"; if it is
None (the default), files are copied. Don't set 'link' on systems that
don't support it: 'copy_file()' doesn't check if hard or symbolic
linking is available.
Under Mac OS, uses the native file copy function in macostools;
on other systems, uses '_copy_file_contents()' to copy file
contents.
Return the name of the destination file, whether it was actually
copied or not."""
Under Mac OS, uses the native file copy function in macostools; on
other systems, uses '_copy_file_contents()' to copy file contents.
Return the name of the destination file, whether it was actually copied
or not.
"""
# XXX if the destination file already exists, we clobber it if
# copying, but blow up if linking. Hmmm. And I don't know what
# macostools.copyfile() does. Should definitely be consistent, and
@ -180,13 +178,13 @@ def move_file (src, dst,
verbose=0,
dry_run=0):
"""Move a file 'src' to 'dst'. If 'dst' is a directory, the file
will be moved into it with the same name; otherwise, 'src' is
just renamed to 'dst'. Return the new full name of the file.
Handles cross-device moves on Unix using
'copy_file()'. What about other systems???"""
"""Move a file 'src' to 'dst'. If 'dst' is a directory, the file will
be moved into it with the same name; otherwise, 'src' is just renamed
to 'dst'. Return the new full name of the file.
Handles cross-device moves on Unix using 'copy_file()'. What about
other systems???
"""
from os.path import exists, isfile, isdir, basename, dirname
if verbose:
@ -242,8 +240,8 @@ def move_file (src, dst,
def write_file (filename, contents):
"""Create a file with the specified name and write 'contents' (a
sequence of strings without line terminators) to it."""
sequence of strings without line terminators) to it.
"""
f = open(filename, "w")
for line in contents:
f.write(line + "\n")